Railway cash-receipt ticket.



No. 760,949. PATBNTED MAY 24, 1904. J. A. BBBLBRI RAILWAY CASH RECEIPT TICKET.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 24, 1904.

JOHN A. BEELER, OF DNVER, COLORADO.`

RAILWAY CASH-RECEIPT TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 760,949, dated. May 24, 1904. Application led lpril 28, 1903. Serial No. 154,674. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JOHN A. BE ELER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the city and county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented, certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Cash-Receipt Tickets; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the gures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a new and improved cash-receipt ticket for use on railway-trains; and the objects of my invention are, first, to provide a ticket especially adapted for` use on interurban railway systems; second, to provide a simple passenger cash-fare receiptticket that will plainly indicate to the passenger the amount of fare he has paid and also to the conductor` and to the inspector of Vthe train on which it is issued and to the company issuing the ticket the amount of cash collected; third, to provide a passenger cash-farereceipt ticket that does not require any punching whatever and that can be very quickly separated from its cooperative stub, thus enabling a conductor to easily passvthrough a train where stops arefrequent and stations are close together. I attain these objects by a ticket as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is a face view of my complete ticket. Fig. 2 is a view of the ticket after it has been separated by a conductor to indicate the collection of a fifteen-cent fare from a passenger. Fig. 3 is a face view of a ticket embodying my invention arranged in a slightly-different manner and arranged to receipt for fares of much larger amounts than the ticket shown in Figs. l and 2. Fig.v 4 is a view of the ticket shown in Fig. 3 after it has been separated by a conductor to indicate the collection of a seventy-five cent fare from a passenger, and Fig. 5 is a View of a form used in severing the ticket.

Similar iigures of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, it will be readily seen that the ticket consists of a narrow ticket of medium length. The ticket is arranged into three parts, lirst, the stub part 1; second, the

Y cash-indicating part 2, and, third, the passengers part 3, and the ticket may be torn so that all of the cash-indicating section except the right-hand fare-space or any other spaced divisional part of it may be left intact with the stub portion, or it may be torn so that all but the left-hand space or any other spaced divisional portion of it may be left with the passengers receipt portion. The tickets are made up in pads or books which are bound together preferably by line wires 4, lwhich are driven through and clamped to the rear edges of the stubs of the tickets. The stub part is provided with the number of the pad or book, the ticket in the drawings being indicated by number 1000, meaning pad or book No. 1,000. In addition to this each ticketin the pad or book is numbered in successive order from l to the end of the pad, the ticket illustrated being ticket No. 5. The stub, or that portion of each ticket retained by the conductor, has in addition to the pad or book number a number corresponding to the number of the ticket to which it is joined and may have the name of the company thereon, also the word Date, with ablank space following, upon which may be `V'written the date upon which the book or pad is issued to the conductor, and the words Issued to No., followed by a blank space upon which may be written the number of the conductor to whom the bookl or pad is issued.

The portion 2 of the book or pad upon which the fares are indicated is divided into any suitable number of spaces by perforated or indented lines 5, which extend transversely across the ticket. The first of these spaces to the right has printed thereon 5 cents, the next l0 cents, and so on for as many spaces as may be required for the road upon which the ticket is used. The part 3 of the ticket, or that portion which is designed to be retained by the passenger, may have printed thereon the words Passengers receipt, with the name of the company using the tic (et, as well as the number of the book or pad and also of the ticket. This receipt portion is torn of at a point which will indicate to the passenger the amount of fare he has paid, and in order that he may not destroy or throw away his receipt there is printed thereon the words Figures on extreme margin to left indicate fare paid, keep this until called for by inspector. While the divisions in the fare-indicating portion of the ticket are illustrated as being defined by perforated or indented lines, so that the paper may be easily and quickly torn, I may dispense with these divisional lines and tear the paper by means of a thin metal notch-former 6, which may be conveniently carried, when not in use, between the leaves or tickets of the book or pad. This form of receipt will not only indicate to the passenger the amount of his fare, but will also provide a check on the conductor which will prevent dishonesty. The stubs and the remainder of the cash-indicating part are ultimately turned in at the companys ofce by the conductor, and if the amount on the last division of the cash portion to the right ofthe stub is twenty cents the amount on the passengers receipt will be the next fare in order, or fifteen cents. Therefore the company will know thaty the conductor in this instance collected a fifteen cent fare. As there is no punching, no separate notching of dimes and cents, no complicated list ofstations at top and side of ticket to confuse passengers, no notching or tearing off of corners necessary to indicate half-fare, as amount paid is all that is necessary to account for, and the time required in tearing 0H a receipt is very short, the conductor can furnish receipts to a large number of passengers in a much shorter time than with the style of tickets now in general use. Also it is impossible for the conductor to manipulate the stub except to his disadvantage, as to tear off any additional part of the stub would only serve to increase his indebtedness to the company.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have illustrated a form of ticket adapted for a much larger range of fares. The stub portion 7 is illustrated as having simply the book or pad number and the number of the ticket, though, if desired, it may be arranged as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The fare-indicating portion of the ticket 7 is divided into a suitable number of spaces, and the fares are preferably indicated simply by a numeral or numerals and begin at the top of the space adjoining the passengers receipt and read downward, beginning at 5 and ending with 50. The next space begins with 55 and ends with 100, and so on for the number of spaces employed. If desired, the centmark ((15) may be placed at the top and bottom of each column. In this form of ticket the lines defining the spaces in which the fares are printed are not perforated or indented, and in order to tear olf a receipt the form 6 is employed. One edge of this form is provided with an indentation or notch 8, and when the receipt is torn oif the form is placed upon the pad, so that the numeral or numerals indicating the amount of fare paid shall lie within the notch, and in severing the receipt from the stub the tearing-line is made to conform to the shape of the notch 8, thus forming a projection 9 on the extreme left of the receipt upon which is printed the amount of fare paid by passenger and leaving a correspending notch or indentation 10 in the edge of the stub retained by the conductor. This form of ticket also dispenses with punching, and the manner in which the ticket is severed makes any dishonesty on the part of the conductor practically impossible, as the stub is ultimately turned in at the companys office, and each stub indicates by the recess in it the amount collected from the passenger, which amount is indicated on the projecting lip of the passengers receipt. The exact fare collected is thus accountedfor, as indicated by the notch shown on the stub. Thus the stub 760, Fig. 4E, plainly shows by indentation 10 that the receipt issued was for seventy-five cents, which amount conductor must account for to the company. The receipt 7B in this form of ticket is similar to that illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, only the wording of the notice to passengers is changed to read as follows: Figures indicated on projection at the eX- treme left, indicate fare paid. Keep this until called for by inspector.

With the form of ticket herein described a conductor can collect many more fares and give receipts for same in a given length of time than with any of the various styles of tickets in general use. No separate notching or indicating of dollars, dimes, and cents is required, as the entire amount is indicated by one quick tear. This is imperative on roads where the travel is heavy and stops are frequent, as without a proper check upon him a dishonest conductor would be able to appropriate a large number of fares without accounting for them; but with this form of ticket he has time to receipt for all fares received, and the manner in which the receipt is severed and the fare indicated makes it impossible to show one fare on the receipt and a different fare on the stub.

Having thus fully described my improved ticket, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A divided ticket, comprising a receipt and a stub having matched, torn edges, one of TOO IOS

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- said edges having a tongue and the other edge parallel to one of said edges, and a igure on I0 having a corresponding recess, a row of gu'res said tongue. along the edge having the tongue, a figure on In testimony whereof I aiix my signature in said tongue, and an incomplete row of figures presence of two Witnesses.

along the edge having the recess.

2. A divided ticket, comprising a receipt JOHN A' BEELER and a stub having matched, torn edges, one Of Witnesses: said edges having a tongue and the other edge Gr. SARGENT ELLIOTT,

havingacorresponding recess, rows of iigures FLORA E. COBB. 

